On 10/12/07, Steve George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to clarify Landscape is available Free (no charge) during the beta > period. You can register for a trial here: > http://www.canonical.com/contact/forms/landscape > > What we ask is that users provide feedback. We want to make Landscape an > outstanding service for systems administrators, so we need them to tell > us what's great, what needs further work and what they'd like to see in > the future. > > As you noted it's also available for customers who've purchased a > support contract from Canonical.
Will the landscape-server package ever be released to the public so that institutions such as education will not need to subscribe to use it? For instance, my friend David Terrell at the University of Massachusetts Amherst would like to make use of Landscape for the IBM-sponsored Linux lab there. However, the budget for such things is very small. I think that there would be a great benefit in allowing educational institutions access to this tool at no charge. The benefits are that if universities adopt Ubuntu, Canonical stands to gain a larger consumer base. Presumably this is good for your company. Additionally, I think that students are genuinely excited and will provide the best feedback on your Landscape product. And just to make it clear, I already heard a grumbling that "this is starting to look like Red Hat network". It is my hope that you will consider always keeping Landscape available at no charge to academic institutions. And if the cost on your end would be too high, how about releasing an open source version of landscape-server so that Universities could run it on their end without utilizing Canonical resources (polling, updating, etc). When I attended UMass, we really sparked a high adoption rate for Linux on campus. In fact, many people will tell you about the infamous Steve Ballmer event when he came to town and we dressed up as penguins for his arrival. There is a video on google somewhere of this (but we missed Ballmer). The members are very active both inside and outside of school, and there is a wealth of talent here. Please follow-up and let us know what your plans are for Landscape. Many of us are very excited about the offering :-) -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
